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Originally Posted by guyever
Just got word the other day that my 98 E Class has a failing transmission. Has about 150,000 on it. Have now got the new car bug and have been looking at 2008 E Class models. My question is that I find MB certified ones at about $34,000 to $35,000 with about 45,000 thousand miles or so on them. I also find non-certified ones ie. no warranty at about $26,000 to $28,000. One I am looking at has an impressive Car Fax report and is in the $26,000 range. Bottom line (or as it seems to me) is that the 100,000 mile warranty is costing me about $9,000.
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Any 2008 model still has the original factory warranty if mileage is under 50K, so you must be describing even higher mileage cars in your "nonCPO" group.
So, there are a couple things that are "of course!"
1. Higher mileage equals lower resale price.
2. All warrranties are purchased and none are free.
NonCPO cars should be taken to a Mercedes dealer (or a really good, factory-trained independent) for a PPI (prepurchase inspection). CarFax is meaningless in comparison when judging a used car.
Note also regarding CPO: it's 100K miles OR one year, so it's probably NOT a 100k mile warranty if you're starting at 45k miles.